Hi Jeff, Text wrapping in a rectangular area is in SVG Tiny 1.2 (http:// www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html#TextInAnArea)
Opera 9.5 (alpha version), available from http://my.opera.com/ desktopteam/blog/, already supports textarea. If you look at this file (http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/examples/textArea01.svg) - this should already display in Opera 9.5 alpha. I don't know when other viewers will support it. If you think it is important, drop the Mozilla and Safari developers a line. I think it is a very important feature and hope that it will be implemented soon, even in SVG 1.1 viewers. Andreas --- In [email protected], Jerrold Maddox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can anyone give their best guess on when text flow and word wrapping > will be recommended by W3C and supported in any of the browsers? > > The working draft from 2002, says this: > > Text > 1. SVG 1.2 should allow word wrapping and forced line breaks for > text within multiple rectangles [SVG 1.2] > 2. SVG 2.0 should allow word wrapping, forced line breaks and text > flow within multiple shapes [SVG 2.0] > 3. SVG text should allow justification locations, such as the nine > standard positions (bottom, center, top with left, middle, right). > Note that this requirement will involve coordination with the CSS and > XSL groups, and investigation by the Internationalization group. [SVG > 1.2] [SVG 2.0] > 4. SVG may allow text to be justified flush within a shape. [SVG 2.0] > 5. The transform attribute should be added to the tspan element [SVG 1.2] > 6. SVG should provide a method to define how whitespace is > handled. SVG may provide an attribute that defines how a text element > should handle whitespace, overriding the use of the xml:space > attribute. [SVG 2.0] > > Is there anything which is more recent that could fill me in on where > things have gone since then and where they are going? I haven't been > able to find anything on line. > > I am interested because of a long term project of my mine using a > variety of different languages and different scripts to present > fairly long text documents - that is from 1000 to 5000 words - which > need to use embeded SVG fonts - it is something I would like to be > able to begin making available within the next year. > > Thanks. > > Jerry > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
